Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Sim, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Sim ( _ru. Сим) is a town in Ashinsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sim River, km to mi|340 west of Chelyabinsk. Population: 15,900 (2005 est.); 16,377 (2002 Census); 20,164 (1989 Census).

It was founded in 1759 as Simsky Zavod ( _ru. Симский Завод, lit. "Sim's Plant"), a settlement around an ironworks. It was renamed Sim and granted town status on November 13, 1942.

It is the birthplace of Igor Kurchatov, a famous Soviet/Russian physicist.


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